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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
It's more the fact that it's basically just voting for teams with name recognition and/or cool promo videos. Anyone who watched Orlando could tell you that 1592 was the primary scoring bot on that alliance, not 233. Yet it was Pink that was ranked the next week. Pink's all the way up at 11th now, while 1592 remains outside of the honorable mentions. I know that 233 improved significantly in Boston, but the name recognition bonus that teams like they receive really ruins the credibility of these polls.
You see the same thing with teams like 118, 111, 148, 71, 33, 610, and 399. They're all either very well known teams or released nifty promo videos. They all did well. But there are teams that have unquestionably outperformed them ranked beneath them.
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I think there is some kind of balance that is needed. power house teams should probably be ranked higher than there robot performs are based on passed performance, potential, and the experience that they bring but there is also a place for amazing robots that don't have the same kind of pedigree. The solution is for people to post videos of matches and webcasts of good robots on Delphi so that people can actually watch these less known robots. one of the reasons pink was ranked after Orlando despite not being the main scoring robot on their alliance is it was very hard to find any videos of Orlando and no one can watch every webcast and every robot, especially weeks they compete so people assumed pink was the power team on the alliance. I have yet to find a good video of Orlando and 1592. another good example of this is MAR, i think MAR is very competitive and has a bunch or really good robots that no one outside the region knows about and yet only has 3 teams in the top 25 (and less next week because 365 will probably drop out because they are idle). I think and hope MAR championships opens a lot of people's eye's to how strong the region is.